| Show FEMALE intemperance NCE new kew york correspondent of the Utica Herald furnishes furni shea the following wholesale statements the play actresses ballet performers and all the female attaches or of theatre drink because this stimulus they could not through the painful and aud laborious performance of their parts the work of such a performer ji sufficiently exhausting in itself and then the greenroom green room and purlieus purlie us of a theatre are foul with gas and other poisons poison sj so that it is often difficult to breathe hence strong drink is resorted to it is said of the little fairies of the ballet that each has ilas her drink before going on tile the stage it is also said that at least a gallon of whisky is drunk by the attaches of some theatres theartres the atres every night the greenroom green room cloret is always well weli stocked blocked arid and if a girl gives signs of inting fainting ta the bottle is resorted to in addition to this it is well known that many of the sewing girls drink under the plea of necessity they labor so harband hard and for such long hours and so often in rooms deficient in ventilation ti that they demand a stimulus I 1 am sorry to say that another class which has ilo llo such excuse is also addicted to drink but not of so vulgar a character these are the broadway ladies who while out shop ingart wont to visit fashionable lunch rooms these rooms are not noi showy establishments they have on the other hand a modest appearance suitable for ladies only but at the request of the fair customers there is along with the slice of cake or dish dish of oysters the fatal wine bottle there is is a great deal of intemperance among tile the ladies or of the fifth avenue A friend of mine mentions menti ens seeing in i a first class mansion the mistress of tile the house holding on to a post at the foot of the stairs unable to advance or retreat |
